The chart below gives information about how families on one country spent their weekly income 1968 and in 2018

The graph given illustrates the families' weekly expenses in eight categories based on their salaries in a country from 1968 to 2018.

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, people spent the most on food in the past to the point it dominated almost half of their income.

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, society’s spending preference shifted to other choices in the future. Back

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in 1968, it was obvious that food became the priority, as 35% of the families' earnings was spent on their meals.

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changed after 40 years as the proportion of weekly income used for food went south to approximately 17%. Looking at the detail component of the chart

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as housing, transport, and leisure, they became the categories that families paid more attention to in the present. People back

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used 10% of their earnings for housing necessities, around 8% for transportation, and almost 10 % for leisure,

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four decades later the number multiplied to half and even more.

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some aspects where people used to spend more in 1986 and the habit shifted to spending less in 2018.

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, the money used to pay for fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and

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personal goods, decreased after forty years. It went from more than 5%, 10%, and approximately 8% respectively to less than half of the percentage.

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, only household goods remained the same for four decades.